Jennifer Bohun Hay FRSNZ is a New Zealand linguist who specialises in sociolinguistics, laboratory phonology, and the history of New Zealand English. As of 2020 she is a full professor at the University of Canterbury.[1]

Academic career

In 2000, Hay gained a PhD titled Causes and Consequences of Word Structure at Northwestern University in Illinois in the Linguistics department. She moved to the University of Canterbury, and was appointed a full professor in 2010.[1]

Hay's research has revealed that a New Zealand dialect took only a single generation to emerge.[2] She has explored how speech perception and production is influenced by past experiences and current context, including environmental factors: for example, New Zealanders hear vowels differently if they are in a room with toy kangaroos and koalas as opposed to toy kiwi.[2][3]

Hay is the director of the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour, a multi-disciplinary research centre based at the University of Canterbury.[2][4] In 2015 she was awarded a James Cook Research Fellowship to research on how personal experience shapes the New Zealand accent and word use.[5]

In 2017, Hay was featured in the Royal Society Te Apārangi's 150 women in 150 words project, celebrating the contributions of women to knowledge in New Zealand.[2]

Awards

Hay received a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship in 2011,[6] a James Cook Research Fellowship and a University of Canterbury Research Award in 2015,[7][3] and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi in 2015.[8]

Selected articles

Authored books

References

  1. ^ a b "UC Research Profile – University of Canterbury – New Zealand". The University of Canterbury. Archived from the original on 2 February 2021. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d "Jennifer Hay". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Archived from the original on 23 November 2020. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Professor Jennifer Hay". The University of Canterbury. 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
  4. ^ "Jennifer Hay". The University of Canterbury. Archived from the original on 2 February 2019. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
  5. ^ "Search James Cook Fellowship awards 1996–2017". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 28 October 2023.
  6. ^ "Otago scientist wins Rutherford Medal". NBR. 11 July 2018. Archived from the original on 20 February 2013. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
  7. ^ "List of recipients". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Archived from the original on 26 November 2020. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
  8. ^ "G-I". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Archived from the original on 29 November 2020. Retrieved 25 December 2020.


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